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were elected members. — Mr. A. W. Buckstone exhibited series of 

 Hybernia defoliaria from several localities, and stated that variation 

 had considerably increased in the last thirty years, and that around 

 London the type form was much less frequent.^— Mr. H. Moore, a 

 huge tree-cricket, Eicmegalodon hlanchardi, from Borneo, whose teg- 

 mina resemble leaves. — Mr. R. Adkin gave additional notes on the 

 " Lepidoptera of a London Garden," exhibiting Plusia vioneta, 

 Monojns rusticella, Gracilaria syringella, Argyrestliia gcedartella, 

 and Gelechia malvella. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs, an aberration of Pyrameis 

 atalanta bred from Vizzavona, Corsica, in which the diagonal red 

 bands of the fore wings, and the marginal band of the hind wings 

 are more or less pink, and some ai'eas very much paler than usual. — 

 Mr. Blenkarn, five specimens of Anthrocera trifolii var. confluens 

 from Withycombe and Horsley, and various species of Coleoptera, 

 including Bledius seccrdendus, recently announced as new to Britain 

 by Dr. Joy. — Mr. H. Main, larvae of the glow-worm reared from eggs, 

 and also a larva of Ocyjms olens. — The Reports of the Society's Field 

 Meetings during the past year were communicated by Messrs. 

 Edwards, Gibbs, Kaye, Priske, Tonge, and Turner. — Hy. J. Tuenee, 

 Hon. BejMrt. Sec. 



The City of London Entomological Society. — Decemher 19th, 

 1911. — Rev. C. R, N. Burrows exhibited Manduca atro'pos, female 

 taken at Mucking, Essex, June 9th, 1911, with some of the unlaid 

 ova of which he had abstracted two hundred and eighteen — only one 

 ovum was laid and this was reared. — Mr. H. B. Williams exhibited 

 Euchloe cardamines, a male specimen, from Abridge, Essex, with the 

 black apical blotch continued as a narrow line along the outer margin. 

 — Messrs. V. E. Shaw, J. Douglas, and B. S. Williams exhibited their 

 series of Anchocelis pistacina arranged to show its great variation ; 

 the vars. were serina, obsolcta, ferrea, lineola, rubetra, brunnea, 

 unicolor-brunnea, venosa, 2)allida, canaria, and sphcerulatina, the 

 latter being much commoner than the type and canaria the rarest ; 

 the specimens shown being from Finchley, Bexley, Epping Forest, 

 New Forest, and Hunstanton. — Mr. B. S. Williams, Agrotis nigricans, 

 var, marshallana from Wicken, July, 1911. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten, 

 pupae and cocoons of Taiyinostola hellmanni and T. cpncolor, and 

 photographs of anal appendages of females of these species to illus- 

 trate the notes read thereon. 



January 2nd, 1912. — Messrs. James Douglas and F. H. 

 Southgate were elected members of the Society. — The evening 

 was devoted to the exhibition and discussion of liumicia pJilceas. 

 — Mr. A. J. Willsdon, specimens from Deal, September, 1911, 

 including two ab. obsoleta, and ab. carulcoyunctata.- — Mr. W. E. 

 King, ab. alba, ab. schviidtii, ab. obliterata, ab. infra-extensa, and an 

 aberration combining abs. obsoleta, cceruleojntiictata, and magnipunc- 

 tata, all from Chingford district where he had noticed a partial fifth 

 brood last season and found some numbers of the larvee in October. Mr. 

 H. B. Williams, some one hundred and seventy-one specimens from 

 Missenden and district, including abs. alba, eleus, addenda, catidaia, 

 suffusa, cceruleojnmctata, parvipmncta, onagnipuncta, basilipuncta, ma- 

 jor, radiata, infra-extensa. He stated that in comparing results of the 



